Name Tyconda Out of service 1915 Fate Destroyed by fire | Completed 1898 Identification U.S. registry #145889 Length 32 m | |
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Route Puget Sound, Stikine River | ||
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Tyconda was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet, later transferred to the Stikine River.
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Tyconda was built in 1898 for the Lorentz Brothers, a steamboat family active in Puget Sound maritime affairs. Tyconda was the only sternwheeler the Lorentz Brothers ever owned. The vessel had a shallow draft, and was able to pull close in to beaches for embarking and disembarking passengers, and loading and unloading freight. In 1914 the vessel was sold to be transferred to the Stikine River in southeastern Alaska. After several runs up the Stikine, the vessel was assessed as being underpowered for that river and was transferred to the Anchorage, Alaska area to be operated on the Susitna river. On October 8, 1915 the vessel was destroyed by fire at Anchorage.